Thanks for the explanation; reading the code doesn't really instill all the background thinking. I will change my code accordingly.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ian MacLean Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:17 PM To: Scott Hernandez Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nant-dev] ElementNameAttribute and BuildElementAttribute Scott Hernandez wrote: > I don?t know much about the development history so this may be a dumb > question. > > Is there a reason that BuildElementAttribute isn?t derived from > ElementNameAttribute. > Yes. they are performing different tasks. ElementNameAttribute is used to associate an xml element name with a particular class thats being used to model that element. BuildElementAttribute indicates that the current property models a child element in the build file and gives the name of that element. When NAnt starts up it scans all relevent assemblies for classes with ElementNameAttribute 's and essentially builds a lookup table mapping element name to class. Then when tasks/elements are being loaded from the build file the BuildElementAttributes are used to know what child elements to select from the build file ( using xpath ). If you look thru the source you'll see that this isn't *quite* true - on startup it looks for TaskNameAttribute's not ElementNameAttribute 's - thats because I haven't finished generalising all that code. Now that you remind me I should get that done pretty soon. you'll notice also that ElementNameAttribute is only relevant on class declarations while BuildElementAttribute applies to Property declarations. Having one derive from the other really wouldn't make much sense. I hope this clarifies things Ian > It seems like they both define named Element nodes, the former being > handled in a more specialized way in the Element InitializeAttributes > method. > > Thanks, > > Scott > > PS. I tried looking in the archives, but found sourceforge?s archive > viewer horrible. I have since subscribed this list on > www.mail-archive.com <http://www.mail-archive.com/> . This is > searchable? > http://www.mail-archive.com/nant-developers%40lists.sourceforge.net > _______________________________________________ Nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers _______________________________________________ Nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
